3/19/2016

All In by Simona Ahrnstedt

Sweet magnetic something on the dashboard! This novel is one fantastic read; and that without using loud tones or an aggressive language.

All In*
Author Simona Ahrnstedt
High Stakes #1
Publisher Kensington on June 28, 2016
Genre Love-Women-Erotica
Pages 336
Format Softcover
Source Purchased
Goodreads


Trust is the most precious commodity of all. In the cutthroat world of Sweden´s financial elite, no one knows that better than corporate raider David Hammar. Ruthless, Notorious, Unstoppable. He´s out to hijack the ultimate prize, Investum. After years of planning, all the players are in place; he needs just one member of the aristocratic owning family on his side – Natalia De la Grip.
Elegant, brilliant, driven to succeed in a man´s world, Natalia is curious about David´s unexpected invitation to lunch. Everyone knows that he is rich, dangerous, unethical; she soon discovers he is also deeply scarred. The attraction between these two is impossible, but the long Swedish nights unfold an affair that will bring to light shocking secrets, forever alter a family, and force both Natalia and David to confront their innermost fears and desires.

Thoughts

And after I´ve read some pages, I understood completely, why it was the most stolen item on the book fair 2015 here in Germany. Yep, you´ve read that right. Fame with two sides – so to speak. Big emotions, a magnificent plot and characters so phenomenal and convincing - that is All In. 
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3/16/2016

Waiting On Wednesday #4 – Frost Like Night by Sara Raasch


is a weekly event hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place that spotlights upcoming releases that we´re eagerly anticipating with pure joy.

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3/12/2016

News - Great Joy!

This Saturday morning turned out to be one of the most pleasurable ones that I had in months. I went into town to get a few things done, walked into our local book store and what do I find?
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3/09/2016

Waiting On Wednesday #3 – Bay Of Sighs by Nora Roberts


is a weekly event hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place that spotlights upcoming releases that we´re eagerly anticipating with pure joy.

I am sneaking around Bay of Sighs for quite some time now. Not that I was thinking about whether to read it or not – that´s out of the question. No, my consideration was about the cover.
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3/05/2016

Stacking The Shelves #4


is hosted by Tynga´s Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!
Over the past week, I had a few great opportunities to get some books really low priced, and so I can add now those to my private library too.

Yes, you´ve read that correctly. Everything that goes beyond 1000 books is, as far as I know, in Germany called the library. And since I am way past that number, I guess I have my own library here at home.


Bought Books

Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie

I couldn´t say what urged me to show this stranger I was more than the pitiful girl staring back at him. I was. At least as far as he should believe. I pulled my spine erect, elongated my neck, and met his stare with every ember of fire burning within me. Dare to think of me what you will, I hoped the look I gave him said. I am Sonya Petrova. And I am not broken.


Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb

“Nothing here.” Morris moved to the comp, brought up the completed analyses. “Not on these three or any DBs I´ve gotten reports on. We´ll run more tests, but at this point, it appears the substance left no permanent damage other than violent death.”
“That´s pretty … permanent.” Eve stuck her hands in her pockets, scanned the bodies again. “I need everything and anything you get as soon as you get it.”
“You think this is the first, but not the last?”
“Unless this was some twisted form of self-termination and whoever did it is on one of your slabs, yeah. It worked so well, why stop now?”
“Then we´ll hope he´s here. Otherwise, anyone, anywhere, anytime.”
Murder could happen, she thought as she drove to Cop Central, to anyone, anywhere, anytime. She´d seen the worst of what people did to people over love, money, for power, for revenge. Or just because. But mass murder painted a darker canvas, and using victims as weapons made for a particularly twisted mind.
Strangers In Death by J.D. Robb

In 2060 New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is about to discover how the ties that bind strangers can kill.




Firstlife by Gena Showalter
Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl… who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she´ll live – after she dies. There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms who will do anything to win the right to her soul. Who can she trust? And what if the realm she´s drawn to isn´t where the boy she´s falling for lives? She just has to stay alive long enough to make a decision …

Indulgence In Death by J.D. Robb
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas must discover who´s preying on those who cater the rich and famous in this novel.





Reviewer Copy

The Charm Bracelet by Viola Shipman
Through an heirloom bracelet, three women will rediscover the importance of family and a passion for living as each charm changes their lives. On her birthday each year, Lolly´s mother gave her a charm, along with the advice that there is nothing more important than keeping family memories alive, and so Lolly´s charm bracelet would be a constant reminder of that love. Now seventy and starting to forget things, Lolly knows time is running out to reconnect with a daughter and granddaughter whose lives have become too busy for Lolly or her family stories. But when Arden, Lolly´s daughter, receives an unexpected phone call about her mother, she and granddaughter Lauren rush home. Over the course of their visit, Lolly reveals the story behind each charm on her bracelet, and one by one the family stories help Lolly, Arden, and Lauren reconnect in a way that brings women closer to finding joy, love, and faith.

Enchanted August by Brenda Bowen

Hopewell Cottage. Little Lost Island Maine. Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island. Springwater, blueberries, sea glass. August.
So reads an ad on Lottie Wilkes´ and Rose Arbuthnot´s children´s preschool bulletin board. When the mothers arrive on the island, they are transformed by the salt air; the breathtaking views; the long, lazy days; and the happy routine of lobster, corn, and cocktails on the wraparound porch. By the time of the late-August blue moon, real life and its complications have finally fallen far, far away. For on this idyllic island they gradually begin to open up: to one another and to the possibilities of lives quite different from the ones they´ve been leading. Change can´t be that hard, can it.


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3/02/2016

Waiting On Wednesday #2 – A Court Of Mist And Fury by Sarah J. Maas


is a weekly event hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place that spotlights upcoming releases that we´re eagerly anticipating with pure joy.

I haven´t read the first book in this series yet, but this is no reason for me not to look forward to A Court of Mist and Fury. Book one stands already in one of my shelves here at home. And a few days ago I started listening to the audiobook of A Court of Thorns and Roses, and even though I am not very far yet, I already like what I hear.

But I´ll have to read the physical book, too. I don´t know why that is, or if I am the only one who experiences that, but I discovered, that I have to actually read a book – not only listening to a narrator´s voice – to get the full picture. Maybe it´s because I can´t do anything else during listening to audio. No vacuuming, no dishes, no painting, no drawing - ´cause after a little while, I am so occupied in what I am doing, that I stop listening. And, as if that wouldn´t be enough, I don´t know where I stopped paying attention to the audio, so I have to rewind till I hear something familiar. And that is, to say the least, quite annoying.

I only experienced it otherwise when I am running through the woods. There I can listen without my mind drifting away. But I can´t do that all the time 24 hours a day only to finish a book, can I ?!





A Court Of Mist And Fury
Author Sarah J. Maas
A Court Of Thorns And Roses Series #2
Publishing Date May 3, 2016
Publisher Bloomsbury
Format Hardcover

Feyre survived Amarantha´s clutches to return to the Spring Court – but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can´t forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin´s people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion and dazzling power, a greater evil looms – and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future – and the future of a world cleaved in two.


And what are you waiting for? Let me know your thoughts about this one or leave me the link to your WoW and I check it out.


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3/02/2016

Time Out by Andreas Eschbach

I have to be honest here I never read any Andreas Eschbach title before. Yep, that´s right. He is one of Germany´s high-class Sci-Fi writers and I didn´t know him at all. I came to this series because I was kind of bored and went to my local library and there it was that I saw the first book of this series Black Out.

Time Out*
Author Andreas Eschbach
Out Trilogy #3
Publisher Arena on July 1, 2012
Genre Thriller
Pages 520
Format Hardcover
Source Library
Goodreads



It is the biggest network that ever existed. A mere thought is enough to reach thousands. Everyone has it. Everyone is inside. Only you do not. That means: You are alone. Very alone.
“We call him the Lifehook.” Christopher can´t believe it, when he hears for the first time of the gigantic advertising campaign, the famous FriendWeb-founder John Salzman has started. A chip people can communicate mentally with almost no effort? Behind this is certainly the coherence. As more and more young people pick up the Lifehook and soon for those, who do not possess it, social exclusion begins, Christopher recognizes that he can no longer hide passively in Hide-Out. But when he has the crucial idea, where the weak point of the global network could be, he and Serenity have to make the perhaps most momentous decision of their life …

Thoughts

This is a series I´ve read within no time. After the haunting story of the first two books, I simply had to know how everything would turn out.
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